EAG TEAM

EAG Studio crafts spaces with meaning, meticulously capturing the essence of its users. Through close client collaboration, we deeply understand and fulfill their functional and branding needs. Our belief is that exceptional design nurtures vibrant, expressive, and inspirational environments.

Our expertise spans from historic intricacies to sleek modernism, backed by a dedication to sustainable development, including LEED Platinum projects. We employ innovative design strategies and cutting-edge technologies like cinematic renderings, AI-assisting scripts and augmented reality to help convey the full vision in advance and inform the design and plan even the smallest details whenever appropriate.

Vin Léger is the founder of EAG Studio, established in 2002 and now comprising dozens of design professionals. The firm is widely recognized as one of San Francisco’s most respected architecture and interior design practices, with a portfolio spanning residential, commercial, mixed-use, and community-oriented projects throughout the Bay Area and beyond.

Vin is known for a pragmatic, solution-driven approach that bridges design excellence with real-world constructability. His work emphasizes clarity, feasibility, and long-term performance, enabling him to guide projects from early planning and entitlement through construction and completion. With deep experience coordinating architects, engineers, builders, and regulatory stakeholders, Vin brings a collaborative and steady hand to complex projects where design, code, cost, and community considerations must align.

Through ongoing ventures in real-estate development, Vin has cultivated a strong understanding of value engineering, financial feasibility, and long-term stewardship of the built environment. He believes good design must be aspirational yet grounded—responsive not only to client goals, but also to neighborhood context, infrastructure capacity, and broader public impact. Rather than adhering to a narrow stylistic doctrine, Vin adapts each design approach to what is most appropriate for the site, program, and community, working comfortably across historic preservation and contemporary modernism.

Vin has long been an advocate for sustainable, high-performance buildings and responsible resource use. He completed Build It Green and LEED training in 2007, and his teams have designed and overseen numerous LEED Platinum projects as well as many high-scoring GreenPoint-rated properties. To Vin, sustainability extends beyond materials and systems to include durability, adaptability, and lifecycle value—principles he views as essential to both private development and public policy.

After earning an MBA from the University of San Francisco, Vin undertook a formative hands-on project that continues to shape his professional values: the restoration of a dilapidated 10,000-square-foot Victorian mansion to its original 1890s character. Working side-by-side with tradespeople, he learned construction from the ground up. During the two-year process, he employed approximately 50 individuals—many recruited from a neighborhood halfway house—helping them develop marketable skills and stable career paths. The project became not only a building restoration, but a meaningful community investment, reinforcing Vin’s belief that development can generate social as well as economic value.

Since then, Vin has overseen hundreds of residential and commercial projects, serving at various times as lead designer, builder, developer, and owner’s representative. Having personally run a construction firm and acted as a builder for many years, he brings a rare, comprehensive understanding of how design decisions translate into cost, schedule, code compliance, and constructability. This perspective allows him to anticipate challenges early, reduce friction during permitting, and support more predictable outcomes for clients, neighbors, and reviewing agencies alike.

Vin is particularly focused on improving efficiency, transparency, and predictability in the permitting, design, and construction processes. Under his leadership, EAG Studio transitioned fully to advanced 3D and BIM-based workflows, dramatically reducing drafting time while improving coordination, accuracy, and communication. These tools help clarify proposals for clients, neighbors, and city staff, minimize downstream conflicts, and reduce costly revisions during construction. EAG has also implemented best-in-class digital project management systems, consultant coordination standards, and procurement planning tools to promote accountability and collaboration across project stakeholders.

Beyond professional practice, Vin brings a strong civic orientation to his work. A lifelong world traveler who has visited more than 100 countries and lived abroad at various stages of his life, he has developed a global perspective on how cities grow and how housing, public space, and planning decisions influence social outcomes. This perspective informs his interest in balanced growth, housing availability, historic preservation, environmental responsibility, and equitable access to opportunity in urban environments, particularly in cities facing urgent affordability and equity challenges.

In the first years of his career, Vin consulted with a wide range of organizations, including nonprofits, public-facing institutions, and private businesses. Working across varied missions and constraints, he focused on improving organizational processes, effectiveness, and workplace culture. Through a collaborative, consensus-oriented approach, he helped teams align around shared objectives, streamline decision-making, and foster more productive working relationships—experience that continues to inform how he approaches complex, multi-stakeholder environments today.

Vin’s academic path reflects a deliberately broad and interdisciplinary foundation. He earned an MBA from the University of San Francisco School of Management, with a focus on macro-economics, finance, and business administration, complementing his practical understanding of organizational leadership and complex decision-making. Earlier studies include degrees in communication and in psychology and biology, grounding his work in an understanding of human behavior, systems thinking, and effective public and organizational communication. His education also includes formal study of Mandarin Chinese language and culture at McGill University, as well as foundational studies in philosophy and the sciences, which together inform a nuanced, culturally aware, and analytically rigorous approach to problem-solving.

Vin approaches civic engagement with a commitment to serving the community fairly, diligently, and with an open mind. He believes responsible growth and environmental stewardship are complementary obligations that require careful analysis, thoughtful negotiation, and respect for diverse perspectives. Known as a proven consensus builder, he approaches complex issues through thorough research, active listening, and collaborative problem-solving, with the aim of advancing outcomes that are balanced, durable, and grounded in the long-term interests of both the community and the environment.

MICHAEL TERNDRUP, AIA
PRINCIPAL AND ARCHITECT, EAG STUDIO

Michael is a principal partner and architect at EAG Studio. He has over a decade in many aspects of complex architecture, entitlement and design in San Francisco, as well as Lake Tahoe, the Wine Country and the greater Bay Area. Under his joint supervision, the entire EAG Studio team strive hard to deliver innovative designs and design solutions that are elegant, timeless, cost-appropriate and that also suit the clients’ tastes and needs.  

Michael has been fascinated with architecture, design and building since a young age and has experience in all stages of thoughtful design and construction. This experience has helped him deliver practical solutions and expertise in not only the design and permitting phases, but in the following phases such as interior design, décor, construction, and marketing as well, helping EAG Studio assist and advise clients through every part of their projects from start to finish. Michael’s expertise in current and advanced technological instruments provide him with the ability to streamline complex processes while simultaneously enhancing designs to provide a superior product to clients.

Michael’s business philosophy revolves around client satisfaction as well as design. The final product cannot be considered a success if the client is not satisfied with the end result. Ensuring that the final product is in line with the client’s desires and taste, as well as meeting the project requirements and achieving sophisticated esthetics are the primary factors driving every stage of the thought process. The passion and the adaptability it takes to work in the design and construction industry are only some of the reasons he believes so strongly in the ethos and mission of EAG Studio.

In addition to the day to day work at EAG Studio, this passion to help client and community has led to involvement in multiple pro bono projects and volunteer works (within and as outside the architecture field) with organizations and causes such as Weingarten Children’s Center, St. Vincent De Paul, Silicon Valley Youth Rugby and SF Bay Area housing solutions.

Michael is a devoted husband and father with a passion for his family, and a love of the outdoors, rugby and fly fishing. He is a Bay Area native, and his education includes undergraduate studies in Environmental Design at the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduate studies in Architecture at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.